One day, yes one day I will write a fanfic in the right order, that is: begining, transition, middle, transition, end. Not beginning, end, transition and maybe a scene or two. Yes one day I will write a fic that way.
Much to Michi's happiness I have started a ExT fic, beginning (and the end bit) is up. I have an Eriol voice (from Megly's Icebreakers) and he now wants to have fic fun. Of course in good Eriol fashion he won't give me details of the plot. Â_Â
[Eriol] but Steph I gave you the plot
[Steph] I can also tie you up and hang you upside down like those bbq ducks at Chinatown.
[Eriol] You've been getting ideas from Nakuru haven't you?
[Steph] *niko*niko*
[Eriol] I just wanted to get a fic too ;_;
[Steph] plot or rope, pick.
Needless to say I'm glad my summer is on the slow side. ^^;; Now if ff.net will stop being an ass.
I also read the other S&S story, I will try to give her of the doubt but its losing a battle of ooc-ness. The ooc-ness of the fic is just bad. I just don't enjoy reading fics that stretch the character out of bounds. And reading this one was just a struggle. I read it b/c the title sounded similar to the plot for the first chapter of Break the Heart. I don't mind characters that grow esp when its justified but this was ooc with out reason. Dunno. I had a rant about this in # a week or two ago. ^^;;
I also realized that the song Its Raining Men is a very good theme song for FunFun Factory. XD
Mental note: pick up used Da Pump CDs and Videos in Japan. I was at Mikado Thurs and I saw Da Pump sing Crazy Beat Goes On! this song makes me laugh so much. Let me rephrase that Da Pump makes me laugh. I love them for their comical factor (they aren't purposefully funny but the thought of them dancing in the foggy forest with white suits dancing ala N*Sync style is funny ^_^). I love Da Pump.
Reading other blogs ^^
Amy - I have Asuka 7 and if you want Nurse Angel Ririka SOS manga 2 + 3. If interested let me know. p.s. the postcards are super sparkly. Interestingly when I got to Kino to pick up, there was 1 left on the shelves and 7 on the "hold" shelf. Apparently the rest of the Bay Area figured out that Asuka was giving away nice furoku. ^_~
Jae - Good luck on the interviews. ^^ I hope all goes well. *Steph crosses her fingers*
Kristina - did I ever mention I really love your taste in manga? ^_^ It was really nice to talk to you especially about Mekakushi no Kuni. (I've been looking for someone to talk about that series). Its such a great story and so well drawn. Now that I think about it most stories running in LaLa are all like that (must explain the increae in Hana to Yume manga I've been getting...).
*Steph runs off to sleep now*
Listening to: I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
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No.: Saturday, June 16, 2001 - Time Left: 01:39 a.m.
[benimaru] http://www.zero-city.com/nadia/nadia_vs_atlantis.html
[benimaru] thought provoking, anyway.
[Nakuru] Disney may have escaped previously, but do they DARE challenge Gainax?
* Nakuru lets Hideaki Anno loose on disney
[Oogami] lol
* kerochan imagines Eva-01 vs giant Mickey
[kerochan] XD
[kerochan] maybe Eva-01 vs Buzz Lightyear
* Oogami imagines Haruko vs the 7 dwarfs
[kerochan] hahahaha
[kerochan] the MMC vs the cast of KareKano o.o
[SuppiHIC] XD
* kerochan puts her $ on Tsubasa
[Oogami] nonono! Ebichu vs Mickey Mouse!
[kerochan] XD
That pretty much explains itself.
Listening to: I will surive - Cake
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No.: Friday, June 15, 2001 - Time Left: 11:20 p.m.
Put up a Asuka 7 & LaLa 7 rant. I'm mostly surprised about the KareKano chapter and the Pretear chapter. ^^ (Pretear has a cute scene admist the genki-nai-ness ;_;).
Listening to: You Spin Me - Dead or Alive
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No.: Friday, June 15, 2001 - Time Left: 01:08 a.m.
is there a benefit to subdividing your page into teeny directories instead of lumping it all together in one? I notice some pages have a directory in each for different pages. Is that a benefit? *steph shrugs* I like throwing it all into one I guess. ^^;;
Oh anybody interested in joining a "Gak! I need Insulin!" webring? XD I'm tossing the idea around while I look at Emi's FunFun Factory page. Requirements: page must induce sugar shock (pink is a plus!). =D
Listening to: Lose Control (Shinshoku) - L'Arc En Ciel
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No.: Sunday, June 10, 2001 - Time Left: 11:10 p.m.
I have no idea what to buy my dad. Except for maybe a fish griller (its this special tool to cook fish on the grill or was it in the oven?) I know these things exist, now where in the hell do I find one?
I began to move $ to the cc to pay for Japan trip. Scary, after holding onto that money (theoretically) its finally happening, though neither Emi or I have bought the JR rail passes yet. Personally I'm still in "oh this is all a dream" mode, Emi is counting the days. ^_^;; It'll hit me on the plane, oh say somewhere over Hawaii. If it were a manga you'll see this teeny United plane in the sky and this big "Usooooooooo~~~!" in hiragana over the plane. ^^;; Yep yep, I'll be attacking much crepe places and ramen carts while there (not to mention Gamers and Black Gamers and every Mandarake Emi has mapped out and the Kyoto shrines and historical Shinsen Gumi battle sites which I will map out soon. XD). I will find myself as Michi puts it, in the "motherland". Ph34r me.
Did you know there are 34,000 doujinshi circles? My brain cannot compute this. *explodes* So the chances of me finding anything from Sasame/Hayate dj to Sumire/Sakura dj is high. Imagine these circles each making 1 DJ, how about 2 or 4? *explodes again* @_@
I also remembered that Peru was south of the equator. When I was younger I would spend every summer there, going to school and studying spanish. (I went to my father's school Juan XXII) I'd return from said trip as pale as a ghost b/c "summer" vacation for me was more "winter" vacation. ^^ I will *love* those 2 weeks of winter in Peru. XD And then two weeks of Japan's humid weather @_@ (I'm going to die.)
I also picked up some manga that I had ordered a while back. I finally have in my possession, Pretear vol 2. Needless to say its just wonderful all around. I have the last 3 chapters of this volume in Fantasy DX 7,8, and 9. But its so sparkly. I also picked up Angelic Layer 4 (Because Wizard was on the back cover and you know how much I love "..." characters). I also picked up Newtype 6 for various page reasons, one of them being that they have shots of Pretear anime. ^_^; It has a gorgeous poster of all the major Angels. (And Wizard!) And FunFun Factory I have been waiting for this manga since I saw the story in LaLa. Its so much cuter compiled! *^^* Emi and I determined that the fairy that follows Michiru around is the Keeki card. ^^;;
That satisfies my rabid manga craving now to wait for my Asuka and LaLa. I think until Pretear stops running or there are more series that I don't like than like, I will stop getting subscriptions for both, especially Asuka. @_@ Once again I've gotten sucked into telephone books.
Listening to: Gips - Shiina Ringo (I know the lyrics to this song like I know keeki x_x)
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No.: Saturday, June 9, 2001 - Time Left: 01:41 a.m.
Well this sucks but its a good decision. I woke up from a bad dream, to put it in a nut shell it shocked me so much it made me start the process to temp and to not go to AX. It pretty much went along with the issues below plus the fact that my subconscious was pretty much telling me "don't go." It boiled down to this, as per the usual crazy dreams, this one had that and the fact that I didn't know how much $$ I had in my account which, when I found out, freaked me out. I woke up from said dream and just knew.
How's that for waving a wand and saying a spell? o_O
Believe me it sucks to do make this kind of decision now, but its good because that gives people time to work things out (not much time but time never the less).
That's all. Sorry about that to all involved. *steph grovels and hands out keeki*
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No.: Thursday, June 7, 2001 - Time Left: 02:38 p.m.
I wish I could shake a wand at myself and say "Sleep normal hours and wake up with a job!"
Ugh normally I don't like to talk about things that affect me personally, I like to keep things nice and light. Then again I do blab about stuff that just really sucks (read: Friend A&B entry). But aside from issues that I just face all the time (bills yay) and school (yay) sometimes its as if my family never really listens to me. I mean they do because I know they runaway when I try to pester them about something like "tuition", its not like they don't and they do mean well. But at the same time, one must wonder why if I am going to Japan and I need some money to manage a fairly decent (not party every weekend) un-cloistered summer social life that they'd plan to take the family to Peru for two weeks? They know that I wanted to get a job, they know that I am going to Japan to AX and oh dear lord to spend time friends. Don't they ask? A simple phone call along the lines of:
[parents] Hello Steph we're planning this trip to a place you haven't been to but love the food from sometime in July, can you come? to which I'd reply: [steph] Well that'd make finding a summer job harder unless you can offer to pay for my summer. And to which they'll say: [parents] Its okay we'll work things out somehow.
And then I'll figure out what to do with my life. But no, they decide to plan with out me, and at the same time I'm building a resume for an internship that a) is non-existant but may happen b) may not be given to me anyways because I will miss 1 month of the blasted internship anyways. I am almost considering telling them that I don't want to go on the basis of the job issues. But I haven't been to Peru since I was 9 and to go for at least 2 weeks refreshes any spanish I lost in the past 9+ years.
So that's said and done, what do I do? Apply to temp agencies, not go to AX, and hope for the best. ^^;;; That's about it, nothing I can do about that part of my life. Though I wish they'd asked me and taken some consideration, granted its like asking that they cater to me but its 2 weeks out of a summer that I can't get back. I may be selfish when I say this but on the barest level, its /polite/ to ask!
As for sleep, well blogging at 3 am proves my lack of decent sleeping schedule. ^^
Michi I guess you can say that because the members of X are there running around campus masquerading as students that there would be some place where no one knows its magical. The same theory can be applied to your problem. ^^ (The Blowfish fountain scene, which is pure fun in a series that is all angsty =P). The park sounds right. *shrug* dunno that's just me. ^^; Hell you can say Eriol worked on the sword itself as training or something. ^^;;;
There's always Eriol Gakuen XD
Oh and I will point to PoU and The Show that Never Ends as reasons for my late night stints. I can't curse you Michi, the stories are too good to leave alone. X_x
On a fic note, does anybody know of any deaths caused by illness? I mean the kind that can happen to anybody (not like a heart attack or cancer) but just the kind that "just" happen? Its sort of important since that's how Riku dies. ^^;;;
Listening to: *waits for winamp to change* Junshin - The St. Tail ED song
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No.: Thursday, June 7, 2001 - Time Left: 02:53 a.m.
Is it me or is there something about Sugisaki manga that makes it so easily slashable?
Sotsugyo M is such a cool manga, the art isn't like Lagoon Engine or DNAngel but its just as pretty. =D And I just barely found out that Megami Kousei (sp?) is drawn by her as well as Brain Powered. Wonderfuly done stories to wonderfuly done art. <3!
Slowly working on the Angelic Layer page and on a very very good note Kino finally got my Pretear Order in! *sparkle* Now I'll find out what happened in the missing Fantasy DX chapters I have. XD Yay! Chibi Hayate!
I went to the supermarket today (Safeway!) and picked up a 1/2 gal of milk (2%) and a big bag of frosted circus animal cookies, suuuuuuugarrrrrrrrrrr~~~~! Its like I'm 8 all over again. (Yes Tanzy I said that and no you can't quote me) Like one year I bid on a metalic Care Bears lunch box with "raised care bears" it was the eptiome of my childhood, much like these cookies. ^^
Off to take a nap now. ^_~
Listening to: I Thought She Knew - N*Sync ^^;
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No.: Wednesday, June 6, 2001 - Time Left: 04:57 p.m.
